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Flags for Glasto 2009


Guest Sam Crawley

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Ahem. "Ceci n'est pas un drapeau." Come to think of it, that sounds kinda familiar. Has someone done that before? (That's a genuine question if anyone knows the answer.)
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Flag numero one was finished about three weeks ago (I know how organised am I!!)

Flag numero two is a work in progress, well I started it last night!!

Wonder if I have time to make three.............................................................. :blink:

Edit: Welcome back Halvin, long time no see!!

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Thank you very much. I keep popping back for a bit and then getting busy and disappearing for prolonged periods. Stupid credit crunch hasn't reached my line of work yet! *

* I'm not really complaining. It's better to have too much work than not enough.

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Yes please! I'd like to see how you put yours together. Um, I can't think of a different way to say this: you look like you've got quite a rigid pole. What do you use?
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I'm going to order a new pole and other assorted flag goodies this week. The addition of Spinal Tap has given me a whole new avenue of inspiration for this year's flag! :blink:

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Here is my flag. I posted a design for it a few months ago, but I have now made it. I made it with a Scotland Flag and a Republic of Ireland flag.

Despite my plan to con my mum into making it, I did in fact make the whole thing myself. I am very clever.

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Here is my flag. I posted a design for it a few months ago, but I have now made it. I made it with a Scotland Flag and a Republic of Ireland flag.

Despite my plan to con my mum into making it, I did in fact make the whole thing myself. I am very clever.

GlastoFlag-1.jpg

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erm wrong category!

I do have a flag relevant one tho :D

I brought a friend for the first time last year who was an engineer. He wanted to take the flag thing a step further. So he bough a flashing yellow beacon, that would sit perched on top of a 12ft solid flag pole.

The beacon was radio controlled, so whenever he entered the field he was camping in, he would flick the switch on his radio control - and bingo his beacon would flash. Brilliant :)

One of the best bits tho - when chatting to an Irish chap and asking him if he liked our beacon, he replied 'I prefer sausages',

Brilliant.

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erm wrong category!

I do have a flag relevant one tho :)

I brought a friend for the first time last year who was an engineer. He wanted to take the flag thing a step further. So he bough a flashing yellow beacon, that would sit perched on top of a 12ft solid flag pole.

The beacon was radio controlled, so whenever he entered the field he was camping in, he would flick the switch on his radio control - and bingo his beacon would flash. Brilliant :D

One of the best bits tho - when chatting to an Irish chap and asking him if he liked our beacon, he replied 'I prefer sausages',

Brilliant.

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Will have the Saltire and Haribo flag from last year, plus the new one. If a certain band get announced though then time will somehow need to be found to make yet another one! ;)

;) <--- I've just found this smiley 10 minutes ago, he's ace!

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